Aw, Ic, you need to wipe that poor feller's nose before you take his picture!

Here's a tiny bug that's been mentioned in passing before, but kind of obliquely. You've got to go into your user control panel and change your forum time zone to Casablanca. If you don't, it has no effect on your forum posts, but it DOES affect how the new SP handles you new submissions. For example, if your forum settings are on Hawaii time and you post a photo at 7 pm October 6 Hawaiian time (which is 5 am Oct 7 GMT), SP will record the posting date as 7 pm October 6 GMT. This means your submission will already be 10 hours "old" when posted and will never appear near the top of the what's new material.

The old SP didn't work this way and new submissions were posted as of the time they were received, regardless of the time zone settings of the poster. That made more sense.

chugach mtn boy wrote:ou've got to go into your user control panel and change your forum time zone to Casablanca. If you don't, it has no effect on your forum posts, but it DOES affect how the new SP handles you new submissions. For example, if your forum settings are on Hawaii time and you post a photo at 7 pm October 6 Hawaiian time (which is 5 am Oct 7 GMT), SP will record the posting date as 7 pm October 6 GMT. This means your submission will already be 10 hours "old" when posted and will never appear near the top of the what's new material.

The old SP didn't work this way and new submissions were posted as of the time they were received, regardless of the time zone settings of the poster. That made more sense.

I'm about 99% sure that this isn't true. There were no changes made to the time system on the main site. The time you see on the forum is completely independent of the time stamp that submissions receive when they are submitted (it comes from the mySQL database). Therefore, all new material WILL show up at the top of the "What's New" page, which is pulling from the database and has nothing to do with the time on the forums.

Montana Matt wrote:I'm about 99% sure that this isn't true. There were no changes made to the time system on the main site. The time you see on the forum is completely independent of the time stamp that submissions receive when they are submitted (it comes from the mySQL database). Therefore, all new material WILL show up at the top of the "What's New" page, which is pulling from the database and has nothing to do with the time on the forums.

I promise you, it is true. I was trying to access one of my new image pages to edit by just going in through What's New. It didn't seem to be there. But when I culled back through to about page 5, there it was--been posted only 20 minutes, but recorded as though it had been posted 9 or 10 hours prior. So I experimented, deleting the page and reposting with various time settings on my own machine changed. No difference. But then I changed the setting in the "user control panel" and voila, when I reposted the image it displayed correctly in What's New. It does seem odd and counterintuitive.

chugach mtn boy wrote:I promise you, it is true. I was trying to access one of my new image pages to edit by just going in through What's New. It didn't seem to be there. But when I culled back through to about page 5, there it was--been posted only 20 minutes, but recorded as though it had been posted 9 or 10 hours prior. So I experimented, deleting the page and reposting with various time settings on my own machine changed. No difference. But then I changed the setting in the "user control panel" and voila, when I reposted the image it displayed correctly in What's New. It does seem odd and counterintuitive.

OK, I'll look into that. Though you could easily be 5 pages deep in images after 20 minutes. Knowing how the code works, I'm still skeptical.

In any case, what time zone did were you set to when it didn't display and then what time zone were you set to when it did show up?

Doesn't seem right though. The time settings on the forum are completely separate from anything that happens on the main site including page submission time. Not sure I want to waste my time on a wild goose chase.

Anyone else noticing this? If someone else confirms, then I'll take a looks.